Weaving of quilts, counterpanes, bedspreads, and similar articles



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T. Hcaur AL y WEAVlNG 0F QU-ILTS, GOUNTERPANES., BEDSPREADS, AND SIMILARARTICLES 5 Filed-Peb. 1e.' 1921 2 shuts-sneer 2 l vPatented Oct. 28,1924.

tias/at THOMAS HOLT AND JOI-IN WILLL'AM H'LT, OF WALSIv-IAW, BRY,ENGLAND.

WEAVING OF QUILTS, COUNTERPANES, BEDSPREADS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES.

Application filed February 16, 1921'. Serial No. 445,422.

To all whom z5 may concern-f Be it known that we, THOMAS Hom? and JOHNVILLIAM Hour, both British subjects, residing at l/Valshaw, Bury, countyof Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin the Weaving of Quilts, Counterpanes, Bedspreads, and SimilarArticles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of quilts,counterpanes, bedspreads and similar articles which are woven with looseand tight warps to give a crapy or crinkled face to the fabric and isdesigned to Weave a crimped, crinkled or puckered cloth with a colouredfigure upon it or a coloured ground cloth with a crimped, crinkled, orpuckered iigure upon it.

It consists in weaving simultaneously with two sets of warps, a crimpwarp and a figuring warp, of different colours and under differenttensions, the crimp warp of grey or unbleached yarn for example,operated by healds under light tension, and the iiguring warp ofcoloured yarn operated by a jacquard under great tension and one or morewefts, preferably only one, the design being produced on both sides.

The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings Fig. l is a drawing in plan or draft.

Fig. 2 is a lifting plan where the ground cloth is a twill weave.

Fig. 3 is a lifting plan where the ground cloth is a satin weave.

Fig. 4 is a lifting plan where the ground cloth is a plain weave.

Fig. 5 is a section of the cloth across the weft threads Showing asection as made by the draft in Fig. l and the lifting plan in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is another section of the cloth across the weft threads.

Fig. 7 is a plan of woven cloth showing the figuring warp b in colourworked up on to the pattern.

The crimp warp a is made from grey or bleached yarn and is drawn throughand opu erated by healds the tension on this warp being very light. Thiswarp weaves in a twill, satin, or plain weave as may be required.

The figuring warp b is made of coloured yarn and is drawn through themails of jacquard harness and operated by a jacquard, the tension onthis warp being very great. The figuring warp b may contain only halforless than half the number of threads contained in the crimp warp a andmay be worked to form figure of ground as may be desired.

The effect is obtained by having practically no weight at all on thecrimp yarn a and stitching this drifting cloth in an endless variety ofdesigns by bringing the taut coloured figuring yarn Z9 to the surfacewhere required. By this means the crimp warp a along with the weft cforms a crimped, crinkled or puckered cloth somewhat similar to the wellknown crimped or crinkled paper, and .the coloured figuring warp b byinterweaving forms a colouredl figure upon a crimped ground cloth or agrey or white crimped ligure upon a coloured ground as may be desiredaccording to the design. i

This makes a cloth which can be used either side asthe face side.

The portion marked A Fig. 6 shows onel method of forming the colouredground cloth, the portion marked B shows the crimped figure uponthe'coloured ground cloth and portion marked C Figs. 5 and 6 shows thecoloured figure upon the crimped ground cloth.

The crimp yarn a instead of being White or grey may be of a differentcolour to the iiguring yarn o.

Either a single lift or double lift jacquard may be used and thejacquard may lift every pick or it may remain lifted for two or morepicks and in this way a saving in jacquard cards is effected.

What we claim as our invention and desire to protect by Letters Patentisz- 1. A single ply fabric comprising a weft i and two warpsinterwoven, one of said warps being under great tension and the other ofsaid warps being woven under loose tension with said weft, forming acrinkled drifting cloth interwoven with said iirst mentioned warp inparts, so as to embrace both sides thereof, and in parts permitting saidiirst mentioned warp to appear on the surface of said fabric, on one orthe other sides of said drifting cloth, the latter being more crinkledopposite the exposed parts of said first mentioned warp than where saidwarp and drifting cloth are interwoven.

2. A single ply fabric comprising a weft and' two warps interwoven, oneof said warps being under great tension and the other of said Warpsbeing Woven under ioose iensioii with seid We; forming a. drifting oiohof eririided oharaoer said iirst nientioiied Warp in parte, so as toembrace both sides thereof, and in parts permitting said iirst mentionedwarp to appear on the sur- :i'zice on either side of said fabric on oneor iihe other sides of Said drifting cloth, the letter heilig moreCrinkied opposite the eX- posed parte of said first mentioned Warp thanWhere said Warp and drifting doth are iiier-Wovenj Said drifting clothin those parte in which Said irst mentioned Warp appears on the surfacebeing reiativeiy more erinkied than in other parts.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing Wiiiessee.

THOMAS HULT. JOHN VVILLAM HOLT, T/Vitnesses:

J. OWDEN OBRIEN, GEO. H. OBRIEN.

